Steven Soderbergh has said that Ocean's Twelve is his favourite of the three movies he made about thief Danny Ocean.

The director told Metro that the middle part of his trilogy was the one he liked the most, despite its mixed reviews.

Soderbergh said: "The thing with the Ocean's films - and before you say anything, I actually like Ocean's Twelve most of all - is that even though we had lots of movie stars, we figured out how it'd work economically from the outset.

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"The first would cost $89 million, the second $120 million, and third $120 million."

He added: "Actually, it's not often that I come across commercial material that I feel I could do and which could potentially reach a wide audience.

"I'm not really a fantasy film person. The Ocean's films are as close to Spider-Man as I can get.'